Ben Vickers

The countdown is on! You’ve got until Thursday, 6 pm to place your bids in our paddle8 auction. Do not miss this. [Paddle8]

There’s no stopping the “amenities” coming to the Lower East Side’s waterfront. Nancy Ortiz, the Resident Associate President of the public housing project Vladek Houses– which happen to be on the Lower East Side waterfront– spoke up last night about the fancy new revamps to Pier42. “[W]e are a community tired of being ignored … [kayaks] don’t fit into the demographic of our community”, she said. [Curbed]

Sotheby’s is creating a new category to handle sales of 20th century art. The hope is to boost sales in the under developed market of modernist works from countries across Europe and around the Mediterranean. These works are by artists who have a strong regional following but are not yet part of the international mainstream. [The Art Market Monitor]

A good reason to head to Philadelphia (aside from this) is a retrospective reviving the century-long career of a female Jewish Ashcan School painter Theresa Bernstein. According to theartblog, curator Gail Levin posits that she was unfairly left out of history for her gender and religion. Maybe. [The artblog]

Another article questioning whether biennials can rejuvenate economies. This one is about New Orleans. [The Art Newspaper]

Has been circulating around the Internets for a few days: King Tut had several congenital deformities which may have led to his early death. More evidence has emerged that his parents were siblings. [Tabloidy images at the Daily Mail; Research from the BBC documentary]

Those in search of a definitive text on post-internet artmaking now have a source book to download. Curators Karen Archey and Robin Peckham have released Art Post-Internet, a catalogue to accompany their show Art Post-Internet at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing China. More than that, it’s full of primary source research and information about post-internet art from dozens of critics, curators and museum professionals. These include Christiane Paul, Ben Davis, Domenico Quaranta and myself to name a few. Each catalog receives its own unique unique download number, as well as a weather report for the day and place where it was downloaded.